We are Just TOO Generous

What can be the most annoying, irritating, disappointing perhaps a really frustrating moment, when you have your hopes all high and suddenly something dashes them like anything and then someone comes and tells you , your mistake why do u have such hopes? don’t u feel like just kicking that person on his face. This would have been the feeling of every Pakistani, regardless of the fact that they had interest in cricket or not, cause at that very last moment even those so called ‘I don’t get cricket, its boring’ people were all glued to their television sets and some unfortunate ones refreshing their web pages continuously at cricinfo, nerves all high, screaming at the loudest when a catch or a run out was missed or when a ball was answered by being hit a four or a six.

Well forgive me for not being able to use those technical terms used in cricket, that’s little my brother’s job!

This was the scenario of my living room last night which rarely had all the family members presence at the same time but yesterday was accommodating all the six members doing just the same one thing (which is unbelievable though!), watching the T20 semi-finals match between Pakistan and Australia.
What a start it was, all fours and sixes and the Akmal brothers with their stupendous performance winning the hearts of almost everyone and we managed to give the aussies a target of 191.

Then we take over ground, aussies on the pitch, and then YAYY a wicket! 1/1, I just couldn’t be much happier than this, I mean not only me ,all the Pakistanis out there, amidst all this politics, terrorism, inflation and how can I forget load-shedding, we had a REASON to be happy and celebrate!
after a fall of a few early wickets came White, who scared us all with his hits contributing a 43 to the aussie score board, but then we were still hopeful with Aamer and Abdur Rehman just taking wickets on time leaving the aussies nail-biting , then came Mike Hussey who is usually known for taking singles , twos and occasionally fours had us praying even harder cause he seemed all calm and unstoppable!

THEN THE LAST OVER, THE LAST OVER!
One
Six
Six
Four
Australia needs one run from two balls
and there goes a Six
Aussie qualifies for the T20 finals

There was an unusual silence in the room, I was almost in tears, how could that happen? we were almost winning, mom comforting my little brothers by telling them all about sportsmen spirit and fighting till the end and then she came to me saying, ‘haarta woh hai jo haar maan le’ (he is defeated who accepts his defeat) , MOM! its not helping now, later
then I see my facebook homepage filled with emotions, some swearing at the aussies, some praising Pakistan, some just too shocked like me with statuses saying nothing more than an OMG! WTF?

Twitter was a little mature though with some tweets worth mentioning like:
Pakistan disappoints, but not disgraced, well done boys
Australia won it rather than Pakistan lost it

Well, it was upsetting but all in all something which rather taught us some real good things:
Pakistan is the most unpredictable team, fighting till the end, not losing hope and haha losing a winning match after all it takes skills in doing that and we are just too generous and are known for our philanthropic works right?